The World Class Manufacturing Academy staff designs courses that meet plant needs. Thousands of workers have sharpened skills – and learned new ones – at the facility since 1995.

The UAW-Chrysler World Class Manufacturing Academy is loaded with touch screens on the walls, iPads on table tops and plenty of hands-on laboratories. The facility is jointly administered by the UAW and the company and is expected to train 1,200 workers a year in the WCM work methodology that was introduced at Fiat in 2005.